Kreidler, sec 2.1 oscillation, beginning PD
Frequency of notes of scale
time and frequency domain (William Robinson)
Go to the helpful links page to download your own version of pd.
Pauline Oliveros
The ILLIAC I and Lejaren Hiller
Digital Audio
Sound Synthesis
Hernandez PD Movie Hello World Tutorial 1Lab1 Intro to PD,
Hw1 assigned (due Wed 2/2)
NOTE: On the PC, go to Programs => Utilities and find:
- core ftp lite to use sftp to upload files to your beowulf or other account.
Note: Make sure to choose secure sftp (not straight ftp) in the SiteManager dialog box. Click here to see sftp choice picture. - putty to use a secure shell to log into beowulf with you 354-xx account
Roads Ch1,Ch3,
Programming Electronic Music in PD, Johannes Kreidler
Also read Roads ch2 if you need to brush up on computer programming concepts.
Class cancelled due to snow. Focus on icon diagrams of synthesis
Program Control in PD, Kreidler, sec 2.2
Also read Roads ch2 if you need to brush up on computer programming concepts.
Assignment>Read these chapters.
Additive synthesis, saving files, amplitude control.
Listening to Hw1 exercises.
Hw2 assigned (due 2/9)
Lesson19, Basic Amplitude Modulation
Lesson31, Writing and Recording Audio
Lab2=hw2
Pat Metheney's Orchestrion
Hw2 listening
Homework this week:
- Go over everything so far.
- Catch up on Roads reading.
- Watch Hernandez Videos.
- Look at pd help examples.
- Look at posted code.
Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)
Hernandez Tutorial Lesson 33, Reverb and Delay
Hernandez tutorial Lesson 31, writesf~ and tabplay~
Hernandez tutorial Lesson 17, Reading and Recording sound files
Hernandez Tutorial Lesson 22, Advanced Audio with [tabread4~]
Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)
- for fun, The Mellotron
- Mellatron Demo Video
- Max Pinder of Moody Blues. History of Moody Blues includes Mellotron
- Max Pinder plays Mellotron samples
- Performance video of Nights in White Satin showing Mellotron being played (1970)
- Mellotron for ipod/iphone
- Timbre
- Visualization of Timbre
- pd Help menu, Audio examples
- A04.line2.pd
- A05.output.subpatch.pd
- A06.frequency.pd
- A07.fusion.pd
- timbrePanner.pd
- More pd, including start of wavetable synthesis
- A08.beating.pd
- A09.frequency.mod.pd
- B01.wavetables.pd
- B02.two-wavetables.pd
- fileToTable.pd
quack.aiff
- A06.frequency.pd
- A07.fusion.pd
- A08.slightly detuned (beating).pd
- A09.frequency modulation.pd
- B01.wavetables.pd
- B07.sampler.pd
- B08.samplerAndRecording.pd
- C08.analog.sequencer.pd
- fileToTable.pd
- timbrePanner.pd
- quack.aiff
- Lab3.html
- Hw3 assigned (due 2/25)
listening to granular sounds: Curtis Roads on VBS.tv Pure Data
Another Pure Data Tutorial by Gary P. Scavone at McGill
Roads: ch 5 159-167
Roads: Ch17 785-802 (music languages)
Roads ch19 878-880
More Pure Data
Weighted probabilities and Markov chains
pd=>Help=>Browser=>control.examples=>
15.array.pd
18.conditional.pd
19.random.pd
20.weighted-random.pd
21.markov-chain.pd
22.random-walk.pd
WeightedRandomInClass.pd
Supplemental Handouts
Debugging Hw3
More listening to Hw3
Hw4 due 9-Mar
Roads: Ch21 MIDI, etc. and supplemental
Pure Data Info: User's site 0) Scales Tutorial
0.5) Equal Temperament system of tuning
1) Intervals, scales, circles of fifths
2) Chords
3) Jazz Chords
4) Olivier Messiaen and the Art of Organ registration
5) Prime Melodies (and chords)
6) The creation of musical scales from a mathematic and acoustic point of view
7) Chord/Scale relationships
Supplemental Handouts
Finish listening to hw3
SimpleSynth in case you are using pd on a mac
(You may also want to get into soundflower on the mac)
midiNotes1.pd first pd example
midiNotes2.pd second pd example
Hernandez Youtube tutorial Lesson5, midi, makenote, and setting up IAC driver on Mac!
Excellent MIDI tutorial,
MusiNums
Mozart's Musikalisches W|rfelspiel (i.e. Mozart with Dice)
Hw4, due Mar 9.
Here is the chua pitch skip patch we worked on in class:
chuaPentatonic.pd
Chapter 4 Kreidler
Roads: Chapter 19
Roads: Ch18
Roads: 857-865 Roads: 868--889 Roads: 889-893
Composition Using Pentatonic Scales (Chua)
qlistExample.pd
Just for information and ideas:
ScalesAndIntervals.doc
pd project with lots of ideas Automata and their application to composition,
Piano Keyboard pic Review Markov Processes, finite automata, and state-based algorithms for music generation.
No Class today
Hw5 assigned (due 3/29)
Grammars
Chaos equation
History of Algorithmic Composition Systems,
Formal Grammars
Grammatical Models of Music
Links: Introduction to Chaos Theory
- Belkin article - A Practical Guide to Musical Composition
- pdf version of Belkin article
- To listen to works referred to in Belkin article:
- First Composers web site with midi
- Second Composers web site with midi
30secondsChristine.pd
ABSOLUTE DEADLINE FOR HW3 AND HW4.
Youtube video pd patch showing use of cycle and gate
Game of Life applet (cellular automata)
mlifeTopLevel.pd
(using pd's mlife object)
supplemental materials:
Cantible: A Rule-Based System for Composing Melody - Thomas et al. 1989
Dannenberg/CMU examples
Rhythm
ABSOLUTE DEADLINE FOR HW5.
gate, cycle, key: new pd objects
...and mlife List of extended pd objects - great!
hw6assigned (continues Lab7
Chords - What they are
Game of Life applet (cellular automata)
(using pd's mlife object)
Music and AI paper
Millen - Cellular automata Cellular Automata:
Cellular Automata rules lexicon
Final Project
End of Semester Timeline
pd patches
EMI on NPR
EMI examples
Beethoven EMI example (mp3)
Chopin Mazurka EMI example (mp3)
Playing The Game from the book Virtual Music
Discuss Cybernetic Composer
lemur interactive midi videos
Hw7 assigned (due 4/20)
kinect, arduino, pd
tuio + osc means kinect to pd and other software
Hernandez on open sound control, part 1
Hernandez on open sound control, part 2
Hernandez on open sound control, part 3
Hernandez on video and GEM, part 1
Hernandez on video and GEM, part 2
David Cope article handed out.
Thomas Charveria: Interactive Installation/Tintin
Flavors Band - Fry
Serialism
Discussion of final project
Music Composition Ideas
- midiNotes1.pd
- midiNotes2.pd
- sliderHarm.pd
- sequencing.pd (intro qlist example)
- qlistExample.pd
- random-walk.pd
- markov.chain.pd
- harmonize.pd subpatch used in sliderHarm.pd
- automaton4.pd
- MelodyAutomaton.pd
- chaos.pd
- grammar.pd
- mlifeTopLevel.pd
gate, cycle, key: new pd objects
...and mlife
- velDynamics.pd - changing velocity with a counter - done in class
- cycleAndGate.pd
- chaosSequencing.pd
- percussionList.pd Note use of pack object and parameters in qlist
- osc18.pd example that uses qlist files
- qlist.txt used by osc18
- qlist16384.txt also used by osc18
Supplemental Materials
- Using python with pd
- testpy.py Put this in the same directory as the following python patch
- pythontester.pd This is the patch. Make sure you are using pd extended
- A Language for Interactive Audio Applications, by Roger Dannenberg.
hw8 assigned (=final composition and presentation) due 27-Apr. Firm
hw5S11.zip
Paper on Genetic Algorithms: Biles GenJam
Todd Winkler Installations/Brown
- History of Computer Music video
- video with Max Mathews from Stanford's CCRMA, radio drum and radio baton
- video of Max Mathews computer music with dance
- Todd Winkler Installation - Glint (Brown Univ)
- Computer Music at Carnegie Mellon and
a video of a pioneering computer accomaniment system - ircam - Paris computer music research, funded by French Government
- International Computer Music Association
- OSC and Sound Effects for Games
- Creating Footstep Sounds for Games using pd
- Gary Lee Nelson, fractals, etc.
Genjam paper discussion
Genjam video
David Cope's web site
EMI is now called Emily Howell and has a CD out!
for sale on Amazon
Info from alum Jennifer Trow: someone, at some point, realized that the noise put out by a Tesla coil is actually a modified square wave remniscient of analog synthesizers, and once they figured out how to control the frequency it was only a matter of time until someone hooked one up to a MIDI rig so he could use his keyboard to play a musical Tesla coil. And thus was Arc Attack born:
www.arcattack.com